To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, Gary Collinson selects his five essential movie sequels that improve on the original… These days if a film isn’t a remake, then there’s a pretty good chance it’s going to be a sequel. In fact, it seems to have become […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of filmmaker Ridley Scott in the final installment of a five part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. Reuniting with Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), Ridley Scott produced A Good Year (2006). “I like to work with Russell,” said the British filmmaker, “we get on very well and […]

Four Lions, 2010. Directed by Chris Morris. Starring Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Lindsay, Adeel Akhtar, Archer Ali and Preeya Kalidas. SYNOPSIS: After accidentally killing his own men at a training camp in Pakistan, Omar (Ahmed) returns to England to form a suicide terrorist cell with ideas of blowing up a major British target. Unfortunately […]

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, 2009. Directed by Jack Perez (as Ace Hannah). Starring Deborah Gibson, Lorenzo Lamas, Vic Chao, Sean Lawlor and Jay Beyers. SYNOPSIS: When two enormous prehistoric creatures contend for supremacy of the sea, the California coast becomes the setting for a showdown that’s been centuries in the making. When you give […]

Lebanon, 2009. Written & Directed by Samuel Maoz. Starring Yoav Donat, Zohar Shtrauss, Oshri Cohen. SYNOPSIS: It’s 1982, and the First Lebanon War has just begun. New gunner Shmulik (Yoav Donat) is assigned to a tank team led by Assi (Itay Tiran) along with Hertzel (Oshri Cohen) the shell loader and Yigal (Michael Moshonov) the […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of filmmaker Ridley Scott in the fourth of a five part feature… read parts one, two and three. Producing an historic epic about a disgraced Roman general who seeks to reclaim his honour by becoming a Coliseum fighter was not originally Ridley Scott’s idea. “I was approached by Walter Parkes […]

Cemetery Junction, 2010. Directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Starring Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, Felicity Jones, Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, Julia Davis and Ricky Gervais. SYNOPSIS: A British coming-of-age comedy set in the not-so-swinging ’70s. In 1970s Reading, three friends, Freddie (Christian Cooke), Bruce (Tom Hughes) and Snork (Jack Doolan) split their […]

Roger Holland on the ‘ultimate everyman’, John Cusack… This article contains a fair few spoilers. If you haven’t seen Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity, shame on you. Also you may want to stop reading. Following her break-up with Lloyd Dobler, Diane Court lies in bed unable to sleep. Faintly at first, the […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Boxing Movies… Screen interpretations of the sweet science can be traced back to the silent era, with movies such as Buster Keaton’s Battling Butler (1926) and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Ring (1927) paving the way for the film noir offerings of the Forties and Fifties. After a dry period the […]

With a remake of the original A Nightmare in Elm Street currently in cinemas, Luke Owen looks back over the classic horror franchise… Freddy Krueger is one of the biggest horror icons in the world. Even people who have never sat down and watched a Nightmare movie know who Freddy Krueger is. He has featured […]